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rgbFilter @ TCAF 2009 – Cecil Castellucci & Miriam Libicki

July 16, 2009May 7, 2010 Doug Groves Comics, convention, event, interview, TCAF, tcaf 2009, Toronto1 Comment

We were at the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival, held on May 9th and 10th. We got the chance to talk to a lot of the artists at the show. This is the second video we’ve put out, and we’ll have more over the next few weeks. This episode is with Cecil Castellucci, writer of the graphic novels The Plain Janes and Janes in Love illustrated by Jim Rugg, which was the launch title for DC Comics Minx line of graphic novels for young adults. We also talk to Vancouver…

A ‘Swipe File’ Controversy and the Anxiety of Influence

June 12, 2009July 25, 2009 Paul L Comics4 Comments

I am about to link you to a comment section on somebody else’s blog, in which I am hilariously informed by Andrew Weiss that I belong in ‘The Directory of Internet Martyrs forthcoming from Who Gives a Shit Press’. The comment was sharply written, and not far off the mark. Are you surprised that I am telling you this? If so, then I have a bone to pick with you that is similar to the bone I have to pick with those who are outraged (those being Dave Ex Machina,…

rgbFilter @ TCAF 2009 – interviews with Sketchkrieg! & Tom Scioli

June 3, 2009May 7, 2010 drsquid Comics, convention, interview, Jack Kirby, Sketchkrieg!, TCAF, tcaf 2009, Toronto1 Comment

We attended the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival, held on May 9th & 10th, and we got a chance to talk to a lot of the artists at the show – we will be posting more videos over the next few weeks. This episode is with the members of Sketchkrieg!, a band of comic artists based in Toronto, and Tom Scioli (a huge Jack Kirby fan), co-creator of the Image comic series Godland with writer Joe Casey, artist of the Freedom Force comic (based on the classic PC game by…

Green Lantern Trailer – fan style

May 25, 2009June 2, 2009 Doug Groves green lantern, nathan fillion, trailer1 Comment

Fans have been making wish fulfillment trailers for their favourite comics or sequels for some time now, but this is one of the better ones I’ve come across in a long while, so I thought I’d post it. I can’t help but wonder though… if a studio WERE entertaining the idea of using Nathan Fillion in a Green Lantern movie (as is recently rumoured), wouldn’t such fan made content discourage them from doing it? Just a thought.

Warren Ellis’s Webcomics Week Explored – Part 1

May 19, 2009May 20, 2009 Paul L webcomics7 Comments

What do you get when you select all the webcomics artists who follow a certain foulmouthed comics writer by the name of Warren Ellis (of Transmetropolitan fame, and currently writing FreakAngels and Ignition City)? When such selection is jumpstarted by Ellis putting out the call personally on Twitter, you get a motherfucking kickass webcomics roundup thread, that’s what. It’s not the first time he’s done this, but the collection appears to be snowballing. I’ve only tackled the first three-odd pages of the thread so far in my reading and in…

TCAF 2009 Day Two Pictures

May 12, 2009May 7, 2010 drsquid canada, Comics, festival, TCAF, tcaf 2009, Toronto0 comment

A few more pictures from TCAF – what a great festival. On the second day we did more video and we will be posting over the next few weeks some very interesting interviews with some of the guests, and a great panel discussion on newspaper and web comics and their future, so stay tuned – same bat-time, same bat-channel!

TCAF 2009 Day One Pictures

May 10, 2009May 7, 2010 drsquid canada, Comics, pictures, TCAF, tcaf 2009, Toronto1 Comment

Saturday was a day of checking out all the tables and some of the signings. We filmed one of the panels, and those videos will be up soon! For now enjoy these pictures…

TCAF – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 9-10, 2009

May 6, 2009May 19, 2009 drsquid tcaf 20091 Comment

The fourth Toronto Comic Arts Festival returns this year, to a new location, the Toronto Reference Library, on 789 Yonge St, Toronto. TCAF is the response to the standard overblown comic convention – it is a 2 day event that encompasses a little more that just getting your issue #1 signed by the artist. To quote the organizers – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is a unique comics event, patterned after comics festivals like Angouleme, Harlem, and the Small Press Expo. It is two full days of comics-related events, including…

Cydia Apps for a Time Walker’s Phone II

May 5, 2009May 6, 2009 Paul L 6 Comments

This iPhone screenshot is from an episode of a TV show called Flashpoint, which I discovered on my hard drive, and with which I discovered that the most common video container in the world (anything ending in .AVI), is unplayable on this ‘iPhone’ handset! It took a little bit of screwing with to get right, but there is an MPlayer app on Cydia you can use to watch this forbidden format. With a few skips and jumps, and provided you don’t sic it on anything too hi-rez, it works. But…

Psychologists [and Watchmen mock newsreel] Demo Propaganda

February 9, 2009February 23, 2009 Paul L trailer, watchmen3 Comments

Psychologists have simultaneously discovered that synchronised behaviour (like, say… marching in step) increases loyalty, and that after being shown propagandistic images, people’s emotional profiles are changed. It’s something I’ve always noticed — people are like mirrors. From the article… Interest in the idea of a herd mentality has been renewed by work into mirror neurons – cells that fire when we perform an action or watch someone perform a similar action. It suggests that our brains are geared to mimic our peers. “We are set up for ‘auto-copy’.” Of course,…

Print Cartoonists declare Armageddon; Microsoft opens up Infinite Canvas

February 1, 2009March 12, 2009 Paul L Derfcity, Diamond Distribution, Infinite Canvas, Neil Gaiman, Scott McCloud3 Comments

Sometimes two or three things come at you in the news in the same week which are such perfect expressions of opposing spirits of the times, that the connection simply begs to be drawn between those points. Take the recent rant on Derfcity, declaring a modern economic End Times for cartoons as a result of the Great Comic Axing at alternative weekly newspaper chain, Village Voice Media… OK. This is it. We’ve reached the apocalyptic final struggle for the future of cartoons. Village Voice Media is the largest group of…

Scott McCloud, in Search of a Durable Mutation

January 19, 2009January 24, 2009 Paul L 8 Comments

The TED conference has just posted a dynamic slideshow talk from 2005 by comics artist/theorist Scott McCloud, wherein he delves into his own biography and how his artistic vision was informed growing up by science. Which is interesting enough, but in the final half, he gives a crisp rundown of the analytical territory which he is famous for populating with graphic Aristotelian orgies, beginning with his 1993 treatise, Understanding Comics. The final third is the most interesting to me. McCloud is bearish on hypertext, or any form of interactivity which…